Democracy is Messy

As the world looks on in horror at our U.S. Congress and Presidency in action it is important to understand that our founders designed it this way so minorities like the "Tea Party" could be heard. In other countries groups like the "Tea Party", Liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans and any other minority group racial or otherwise might just be assassinated on a regular basis until all the leaders were gone or scared to function in public. At least in the U.S. and other democracies minorities can be heard. And you will see the excesses of the Tea Party will be mitigated over time. Is what happened good or bad? That's difficult to say. Ask me in about 50 to 100 years and I will better be able to answer that if I am still alive and so will you.

In my own philosophy of Democracy I usually prefer 8 years of one party then 8 years of another then 4 years of one party then four years of another. The reason I prefer this is that both parties do some things great and really screw up other things. So when you alternate parties in office both parties can do good what they do good without destroying our country with what they do that is really bad. So, hopefully over time all the excesses of each point of view are mitigated by the other and in the end if we are really lucky 100 years from now our great grand children will love our democracy as much as we do (even if at times like this most Americans just want to scream in anger and disbelief.